A Russian An-72 military transport aircraft was destroyed in an explosion at the Ostafyevo airbase in Moscow on December 12, according to Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate.

The aircraft, which belonged to the Russian Navy, had its main power unit detonated.

The estimated cost of the destroyed Russian aircraft is approximately $4.5 million.

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DIU did not specify the means by which the strike was carried out but promised that "there will be just retribution for every war crime committed against the Ukrainian people."

  • Overnight on November 9, a Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter was burned at an airbase near Moscow.
  • On December 13, a destructive fire in Krasnodar disabled three Russian railway locomotives. The following day, a Russian Su-30 fighter jet was destroyed in a fire at an airbase in Krasnodar Krai.
  • On December 15, military intelligence reported that railway tracks were blown up in Ulyanovsk, Russia, complicating logistics for the Russian army.
  • On December 19, DIU reported that underground fighters in Novosibirsk, Russia, set fire to fuel depots of the Russian army.
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